Sunday, September 21, 2014

The result was disappointing, not entirely a surprise
but still. At the outset I was a staunch no and I remember telling BB Quattro
and whoever else that it wouldn’t happen. Then I got to thinking and
after the shenanigans of how things are going within this sceptic isle, I
decided it was more than worth a shot. Partly down to devilment but I felt a
genuine undercurrent that might effect change eventually. Unlikely it would
happen in my lifetime but maybe a generation or three down the pike.Hearing the smug, rent-a-quote pish that's flowing from the
“victors” is nauseating. Once I got to grips that this wasn't about Wee Soapy, and especially not
about wanting to disown England or 99% of the people who reside there. Maybe if
there had been inclusion of Scots who were located elsewhere, those that might
have returned to try and hoist the country up by its bootstraps had a yes vote
been successful? Alas we’ll never know but still, there were only 400,000 votes
in it, that in itself is hardly a landslide for the fearties.

Broon in particular gives me the collywobbles and he has the most to gain in the long run although I hope that Scottish
labour are hobbled enough for people not to look to this shyster. He sold the
family silver and as a reborn maggot, he’ll lead the charge – er, not flippin
likely but he’s got a fair share of the gullible believing him. I’m hoping that
his leading the death rattle will have the desired effect on what’s left of
what used to be Labour.

Anyway, there’s no point in raking it over. The damage is
done and there’s much limitation to consider. How it all pans out in the next
season taking us to May 2015 is potentially alarming. Every figment of the
lying, conniving puppets that made up the No corner are entirely guilty of sowing
the seeds for something altogether more nasty, those that are working the
Camerons of this world.

So it looks like it’ll take longer than was envisioned, ain’t
it always the way. I just hope that what happened in George Square
and the surrounding area on Friday night will not be symptomatic of the immediate to
mid-future. We’ve all been cheated, both sides. The upcoming general election
has to be used to even the score, to set the scene for another crack at getting
the fuck out of Dodge.

The roof may well have come in by that time, this country –
the UK - is bankrupt in a multitude of ways. If you thought pulling together to
try and make things work might be impossible, wait ‘til you get a load of what’s
in store.

I've hit a wee bit of a snag that means that I'll need to scan the old NBT pages again. Particularly on the early issues. Playing with these scans, I've been reading some of those early attempts at stringing a sentence together, It's not pretty to the point of toe-curling. Maybe a little like starting a band without being able to play. But anyway, I'll just have to suck that up and let my yeah be yeah.

So stick with us. Simon has done a great job. It's good that the process of invigorating this thing is finally underway. I feel that the word "energised" has hit the wall as a casualty of the farce that went down on Thursday. Anyway, let's not go over all that now. You're likely sick to your stomach of it. I know that I am however this time next week I shall be in a far, far better place.

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This all kicked off as a print (Xerox) magazine in 1977 and now it's on the interweb. Named after the title track on The Dictators Go Girl Crazy (40 years old in 2015) the purpose has always been to uphold what’s good and pure and right in terms of rock’n’roll and its satellites.

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I plan to put PDFs of all physical issues up here eventually and in addition, all Rockin’ Bones, Watch This and Fuzzbuzz.Maybe Psychedelic Basement, etc from Sounds too so that everything is in one place. Some of the quality of the source material isn’t terribly good but it’s all I have to work with. It will take some time. The 3 page pilot issue, “NBT 0” from September 1976 never survived as far as I know. Some of the content is a wee bit embarrassing at this juncture but every journey has to start someplace, right?